Jean Vincent
Jul 23, 2017 · 1 min read

We need to fix earth first. That’s how we will develop the technologies and mindset that will allow life on other planets.

But how about terraforming Venus?

After cooling in down with a massive area of solar panels around it that will also gather the energy needed to transform its toxic atmosphere into a livable world?

Venus is a better world, it does retain an atmosphere, and has gravity comparable to that of earth on its surface.

Being closer to the sun we could gather tremendous amount of energy, about 2600 W/m2.

Could we build the solar panels from the Moon or asteroids or Mercury (from the cool side) and ship them to many Venus orbits to form a sort of Dyson sphere around it?

How about thin film, lightweight panels allowing to cover large surfaces with less materials?

What surface would be needed to blanket enough of Venus this way, what estimate of materials weight would we need?

Could we use lasers or micro-waves to transform cooled-down Venus atmosphere and eventually send energy back to its surface to sustain a civilisation and ecosystems?

I’d love your thoughts on this and possibly other ideas.

Thanks for all your great articles.

Jean Vincent

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Renewable energies transition. Creator of Toubkal, open-source fully reactive programming from Nodejs and the browser. https://github.com/ReactiveSets/toubkal